Where does “insensateness” come from?
insensateness (English) comes from English insensate, from Latin insensatus, from Latin sensatus, from Latin sēnsus, from Dutch census, from Latin census, from Latin censeo, from Proto-Italic kensēō — to cover, conceal; hornless.
insensateness (English): Quality of being insensate
Definitions
- Quality of being insensate
Ancestry of “insensateness”, step by step
insensateness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English insensate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | insensate | Having no sensation or consciousness;... |
| 2 | Latin | insensatus | irrational |
| 3 | Latin | sensatus | sensible, intelligent, gifted with sense |
| 4 | Latin | sēnsus | faculty or power of perceiving; perception, feeling, sensation, sense |
| 5 | Dutch | census | a census |
| 6 | Latin | census | census, a registering of the populace and their... |
| 7 | Latin | censeo | I give an opinion; I think, suppose or judge; I... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kensēō | to give an opinion |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kensējō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱens-éh₁-ye-ti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱens- | to announce, to proclaim; to put in order |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱem- | to cover, conceal; hornless |
via English Ness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ness | An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa |
| 2 | Middle English | nesse | — |
| 3 | Old English | næs | not, not at all; not; first/third-person singular... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nasją | foothill; headland; cape |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néh₂s | nose |